Monthly Archives: November 2014
SSC – how much are our senior bureaucrats really worth?
The fallout over Roger Sutton’s resignation and State Services Commissioner Iain Rennie’s handling of it raises issues beyond inappropriate behaviour and its sterilisation by the old boys network. The golden handshakes available to those at the top of the government department/quango/SOE food chain, on top of their excessively high salaries, and the very different treatment meted […]
Labour’s future policy direction
As Andrew Little and the rest of the Labour Party heirachy sit down to decide policy and strategy for the next 3 years, they would do well to consider this Gordon Campbell interview with Bryan Gould. Yes Gould is part of a review committee that is reporting back to Labour on its election defeat but I […]
Congratulations Andrew Little – now where’s the vision?
Bland and boring have been words bandied about in the last few weeks with regard to the Labour Party leadership contest. I did it myself in September prior to the election in a post titled Labour Party – Bland, Cynical and Lacking Conviction If Labour want to keep following National down this vacuous, cynical “realpolitik” route relying on […]
Pilger compares ISIS to Khmer Rouge – US complicit
Love him or loathe him, John Pilger cuts to the chase in a recent article on ISIS, From Pol Pot to ISIS: “Anything that flies on everything that moves” ISIS is the progeny of those in Washington and London who, in destroying Iraq as both a state and a society, conspired to commit an epic […]
TPP and the fallacy of free trade
Tomorrow there will be nationwide protests around New Zealand against the TPP agreement. Most of the opposition quite rightly centers around the agreement being less a pure free trade agreement between equal partners but rather a Corporate Bill of Rights, challenging national sovereignty on a whole host of areas that potentially crimp corporate profit making […]
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